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Quotes about Culture

You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values.

by Peter Abrahams (Novelist, South African , born in 1919) keywords: alone, culture, history, illusion , values

Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there.

by Rita Mae Brown (Writer, American , born in 1944) keywords: literature

More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to.

by Bill Bryson (Writer, American , born in 1951) keywords: english, speak , world

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

by Lord Byron (Poet, British , born in 1970) keywords: architecture, dress, man, painting, poetry , school

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.

by Ralph Waldo Emerson (Poet, American , born in 1970) keywords: age, books, generation, next, succeeding , write

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every burned book enlightens the world.

by Ralph Waldo Emerson (Poet, American , born in 1970) keywords: book, burned, enlightens , world

Hans Magnus Enzensberger

Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something.

by Hans Magnus Enzensberger (Author, German , born in 1929) keywords: culture, dropping, glass , see

John Stuart Mill

Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.

by John Stuart Mill (Philosopher, English , born in 1970) keywords: originality

Friedrich Nietzsche

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

by Friedrich Nietzsche (Philosopher, German , born in 1970) keywords: friends, spirit , writer

Herbert Spencer

Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.

by Herbert Spencer (Philosopher, English , born in 1970) keywords: entered, know, poetry, pursuits , scientific

The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.

by Edmund Spenser (Poet, English , born in 1552) keywords: death, genius, monuments, poets, stone , survives

My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

by Mark Twain (Author, American , born in 1970) keywords: books, geniuses, water , wine

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbors, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

by Voltaire (Writer, French , born in 1970) keywords: books, communicate , property

Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.

by Tom Wolfe (Journalist, American , born in 1931) keywords: arts, beliefs , culture

The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

by Tom Wolfe (Journalist, American , born in 1931) keywords: art, modern, notion, public, fiction , game